This document discusses the oVirt mobile client application called moVirt. It provides an overview of moVirt's architecture and capabilities, which allow mobile monitoring of virtual machines and notification of events. Future plans are outlined to improve the user interface, integrate additional features like SPICE and SSH, and make moVirt more useful for server room administrators by connecting it directly to host systems.

1. Mobile Open Virtualization – oVirt App
Yaniv Bronhaim
Software Engineer @ RHEV
RedHat Israel.
AKA ybronhei at #ovirt
(irc.oftc.net)

2. Agenda
● What is Virtualization
● Introduction for oVirt
● Mobile Client Application – Internet of
things
● Look and feel
● Architecture
● Future plans
● Q/A

3. Servers Management

4. Servers Management

5. Servers Management
Your Data
Center

6. Servers Management

7. Servers Management
Install OS

8. Servers Management
Laptop or
screen with
keyboard
S1-A = 00:11:22:33:44:55
S2-A = 0A:1B:C2:CC:44:55
C8-E = A3:AA:C7:92:12:32
…..
C8-E
C7-E
C6-E
C5-E
S1-A

9. Servers Management
Initial Setup
httpd
AD
DNS
oVirt
DHCP

10. Servers Management
Monitor And
Update –
Drift
Management

11. 11
Data Center Entities
Data Centers
Storage
Linux Hypervisors
Network

12. 12
Data Center Entities
Data Centers
Storage
Linux Hypervisors
Virtualization
Network
Clusters
GuestVM GuestVM
GuestVM GuestVM

13. The Environment – Why clusters?

14. Multi-Datacenter/Multi-Host

15. Multi-Datacenter/Multi-Host

16. What is oVirt?

17. Large scale, centralized
management for server and
desktop virtualization
Based on leading performance,
scalability and security
infrastructure technologies
Provide an open source alternative
to vCenter/vSphere
Focus on ease of use/deployment
Focus on KVM for best
integration/performance
What is oVirt?

18. 18
Kenrel-based Virtual Machine
● Included in Linux kernel since 2006
● Runs Linux, Windows and other
operating system guests
● Advanced features
– Live migration
– Memory page sharing
– Thin provisioning
– PCI Pass-through
● KVM architecture provides high
“feature-velocity” – leverages the
power of Linux

19. How Does It Look?

20. Basic User Portal

21. Power User Portal

22. Mobile client – Internet of things
● Instant access to information
● Mobile browsers don't fit
● Notifications
● Advance options to users

23. ArchitectureArchitecture

24. High level design

25. High level design

26. Class view

27. moVirt – Current abilities
● Agentless
● Lightweight
● Android Client
● Simple/Clean sources – simple to extend
or modify
● Instance monitoring
● Compatible with oVirt 3.4 and Android 4.x

28. MoVirt – Login

29. MoVirt – VM Information

30. MoVirt – Events

31. MoVirt – VM Operations

32. MoVirt – VM Events

33. What does moVirt allow to do?
● Allows to set “triggers” (memory, CPU,
state)
● Monitors VMs (all in cluster or just some)
● If trigger matches, fires notification
(vibrate, beep)
● Shows details and events
● Allows start/stop/reboot

34. MoVirt – Trigger Settings

35. MoVirt – VM Notifications

36. Future Plans
● Performance testing and tuning
– Push (Google Cloud Messaging for Android,
Aerogear) vs Poll
● Integrate SPICE (aSPICE)
● Integrate an SSH client to hosts
● User Interface:
– Visually nice DC overview
– moVirt Widget
– Advanced VM management (instance types,
imagetemplates management)

37. Ovirt & VIRT & KVM Buzzwords
Live snapshot
Task Management
Async Operations
Live Migration
Overcommit
CPU, Memory, I/O
Hotplug
Thirdparty Integration
Hosted
Engine
Live Storage Migration
KSM
Kernel Same-Page
Mering
NUMA
SPICE
Memory
Ballooning
OS support
sVirt
PCI pass through
Quota
Limit Resources
Import Storage
Domain
All In One
MoM
AAA
Managed
Discovered Hosts
Iscsi , NFS
Management
Network Interfaces
Management
Cinder Templates
KVMNode
Registration
Events
User Rolls
Kdump fencing PPC Support

38. What's going on with moVirt
● History
– mpolednik have started in his free time implement an iOS clone of movirt
● Now days
– mbetak have taken movirt as a diploma thesis and started to implement a
server side for it making it possible to push the changes instead of polling
– Currently as a part of OPW a girl from India called Sphoorti is working on it
(the round will end soon, in ~1 week)
– We have proposed it for next round of OPW (or outreachy as it is named
now)
● Plans:
– We would like to integrate the hosts to moVirt making it a useful tool for
admins in server room. The use case we dream about is this:
● Have a simple script which will generate QR codes for all hosts in your
system (simple command line tool)
● You print them and put them on your physical boxes
● Than in server room you can just scan the code, it will open the hosts
screen, it will show you what VMs are running on it etc.
● Put the host to maintenance, do something physically with the host,
start again and than check if the hosts is up again.

39. Do Not Hesitate To Contribute
● Videos
– https://www.youtube.com/channe
l/UCX2a6qOrCrUYGQCGLlHz2-A
● IRC:
– #ovirt on irc.oftc.net
● Wiki:
– http://www.ovirt.org
● Repos:
– https://github.com/matobet/movirt
– https://gerrit.ovirt.org
● Lists:
– devel@ovirt.org
– users@ovirt.org
9 years old open source project

40. THANK YOU !
Yaniv Bronhaim
Software Engineer @ RHEV
RedHat Israel.
AKA ybronhei at #ovirt
(irc.oftc.net)
ybronhei@redhat.com